Can someone help me decipher the bride's given name in this DeGrandij-D'Arecca marriage record and index entry? It begins with a P and looks to be something like Praziosa. I've never seen this given name before, but I've seen Persia and Porsia before.

BTW, the same woman is named Angiola in her death record, which was presented at the time of Giuseppe DeGrandij's subsequent marriage, but the name in this record is clearly not Angiola.

The name Italia, probably a Graecized form of Italic Vitelia (='calf land'), was originally restricted to the southern half of the 'toe' but was gradually extended. By 450 B.C. It meant the region subsequently inhabited by the Bruttii; by 400 it embraced Lucania as well. Campania was included after ...

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